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In Ukraine, a military prisoner, sitting on a chair, is guarded by a soldier in the background, in what looks like an interrogation room.
Ukraine: a two-time deserter convicted of high treason
17 December 2024 by Vladyslava Kobko
A native of Donetsk region who was mobilized twice and deserted twice, first from the army of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and then from the Ukrainian army, repented in front of the Kostopil district court in the [...]
Sexual violence in Ukraine - As a result of the war with Russia, sexual crimes perpetrated by Russian soldiers are on the increase. photo: a woman hides her face with her hands. “We need an example and people will speak up”
12 December 2024 by Olga Zhuravel
211 women and 118 men have been registered as victims of conflict-related sexual violence since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, according to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Our correspondent in Dnipro spok [...]
The trial of Nikolai Kartashov, 22, a Russian artilleryman accused of war crimes committed in the town of Boucha (Ukraine) opened on November 20. A Russian officer on trial for murder in Bucha
5 December 2024 by Iryna Salii
On 20 November 2024, the Irpin City Court started the trial of a young Russian military officer whose unit opened fire and killed a convenient store security guard in Bucha, in the region of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, in F [...]
Balakliya's ‘ordinary man’, Anatoliy Derevyanko, during his trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: Balakliya stands behind the glass in the dock. The Balakliya “ordinary man” released on probation
12 November 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
He kept hoping, but did not expect it. He came to hear the verdict without his belongings and passport: he did not think he would be released. In a rare decision in collaboration cases in Ukraine, after more than a year and a half [...]
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Trial of Mykola Fedorian in Ukraine for crimes of treason committed in Russian-occupied Crimea. Photo: Fedorian at his trial in Kyiv, behind the glass of the dock.
31 October 2024 by Iryna Salii
“I consider it cynical to accuse Crimeans of treason against Ukraine” Mykola Fedorian was deputy chief of the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs until 2011. He was working at a state-owned company when Russia annexed Crimea. He stayed, keeping his Ukrainian passport and making visits back home. Un [...]
Andryi Kostin, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, tendered his resignation on 22 October 2024 following a corruption scandal that has cast a shadow over the entire justice system in Ukraine. Photo: portrait of Kostin, a Ukrainian flag printed on his shoulder.
29 October 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
Ukraine: the scandal behind the resignation of the Prosecutor General The Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, tendered his resignation on October 22, in the wake of a corruption scandal that has rocked the judicial system. Dozens of prosecutors have allegedly obtained fake disability certi [...]
The Epicentre hypermarket near Chernihiv (Ukraine) in 2022 after it was bombed by the Russian army. Photo: exterior view of the burnt-out hypermarket.
17 October 2024 by Ksenia Rekun
At the epicentre of environmental damage in Ukraine The war in Ukraine has led to major environmental damage to soil, air, water, and people, caused by Russian shelling. In the Chernihiv region only, Ukrainian authorities evaluate its cost at about 630 million dollars. How is this [...]
Oleg Myzhgorodskyi, an alleged member of the Ukrainian ‘Azov’ regiment, is accused of ‘terrorism’ in a trial in Russia. Photo: 2 side-by-side portraits of Myzhgorodskyi, in 2021 (before detention) and in 2023.
11 October 2024 by Valentyna Osterska
Chernihiv waits for its “Azov” fighters on trial in Russia “Oleg weighed 115 kilograms, he weighs only about 50 now,” says the sister of one of the alleged members of the Ukrainian “Azov” regiment accused of ‘terrorism’ in the Federation of Russia. While the Rostov-on-Don military court i [...]
Trial of private entrepreneurs for collaboration with Russia in Ukraine. Photo: During a trial in Ukraine, a witness appears from behind, facing a judge in a small courtroom.
10 October 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
How Ukraine brings to justice private entrepreneurs Who are the people have been prosecuted for economic collaboration over the past three years in Ukraine? Journalist Anastasia Zubova analysed dozens of cases brought before Ukrainian courts since 2022. She identified some trends a [...]
Daniil Martynov in Ukraine - Photo: Two armed soldiers pose (thumbs up) in front of the back of a Porsche.
27 September 2024 by Iryna Salii
A Kadyrov brother-in-arms sentenced in Ukraine Twelve vulnerable patients died during three weeks of terror they faced in the first days of the Russian occupation. They died in a Ukrainian psychoneurological hospice under the control of a Russian colonel close to Chechen leade [...]
Trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: A man removes a Russian propaganda poster in Kherson upon his liberation by Ukrainian armed forces.
2 September 2024 by Iryna Salii
14 years in jail for 45 days of work with the police under Russian occupation A district council representative of Kherson, in Southern Ukraine, who became an operative of the police under Russian occupation, was put on trial on charges of collaboration. He claimed he was forced to join the occupation polic [...]
War in Ukraine and repairs to civilian targets: the case of companies. Photo: The Hotel Ukraine in Chernihiv destroyed by a Russian missile.
15 July 2024 by Ksenia Rekun
Is a war-ruined business in Ukraine entitled to compensation? Russian Federation’s frozen assets are said to exceed 270 billion US dollars. In June leaders of the G7 countries approved a decision to grant Ukraine 50 billion dollars from the proceeds of these assets. A compensation mechanism [...]
Trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: A Ukrainian woman is tried before a court in Dnipro.
11 July 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
Collaboration trials in Ukraine: what do court verdicts tell us? From March 2022 to June 2024, more than 8,000 proceedings on collaboration crimes have been registered by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General. Last year, 790 verdicts were delivered. But the law on collaboration that was passed right aft [...]
Enforced disappearances in Ukraine - The mother of the missing Andrii Shapoval shows a video of her son on her phone.
24 June 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
Enforced disappearance in Ukraine: Andrii’s mother's tortured path On the morning of April 12, 2022, the day of his 28th birthday, Andrii Shapoval went to his friend’s grandmother’s house in Balakliya, eastern Ukraine, which was under occupation. He never returned home. Through this story, a Ukra [...]
Oleksandr Kostornyi, a former KGB officer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ukraine for high treason. Photo: Kostornyi is pressed up against the glass of the dock, his hand resting on it, facing his reflection.
11 June 2024 by Iryna Salii
Kostornyi, the former KGB officer found guilty of high treason Over 60 dead and 160 wounded. Ukrainian and foreign combatants. The missile attack on a Ukrainian military training centre in Yavoriv, western Ukraine, on March 13, 2022, was widely reported at the start of the all-out invasion. I [...]
Trial of Oleksandr Radchenko in Ukraine. Photo: A television broadcasts live images of prosecutor Dmytro Reshetnyak and Vitaliy Bessonov, one of the defence lawyers.
31 May 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
Oleksander Radchenko, a patriot or a collaborator? Former businessman and politician Oleksander Radchenko is currently accused of complicity with Russia during the occupation of Kupiansk, in eastern Ukraine. The founder and CEO of the Kupiansk Milk Canning Factory was detained for [...]
Trial of a Russian soldier for war crimes near Kyiv, Ukraine - Photo: a Ukrainian civilian walks down the street while smoke is visible in the distance following a Russian shell strike.
25 April 2024 by Iryna Salii
War crimes in the Kyiv region: a Russian soldier sentenced to 12 years This case is one of the rare trials of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, for a war crime that took place near the city of Borodyanka, 25 kilometers distant from the martyred city of Bucha. One of the thousands of crimes committed in th [...]
Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants.
26 March 2024 by Iryna Salii
Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv In this rare legal chronicle, which covers several months of trials of two men in two courts in the region of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, our correspondent tells the story of how collaboration with the Russian occupiers tak [...]
Demonstration in Vilnius (Lithuania). Two women hold signs saying
22 March 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
It is "now or never", for a special tribunal on Russia's aggression To what extent is an ad hoc court on the crime of aggression still on the table, two years and a month after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine? Discussions are still taking place behind closed doors, explain our Asymmetri [...]
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